All our readings of the Bible are deeply wedded to both cultural and theological commitments.
If we are not imitating the heavenly Father, then we are not his children:
In Romans 1:3–4 Paul says something so surprising that most of our Bible translations refuse to print it. A literal translation reads as follows: the gospel promised by God concerns his Son, who was b...
Paul is pinning all hopes for the eschatological future on Jesus’ resurrection.
Paul reinterprets the Scriptures of Israel in light of Jesus’ resurrection in order to defend his assertion that all people must confess the lordship of the resurrected Christ in order to know the rig...
Paul’s argument is primarily an argument about theodicy, not about soteriology.
Rather than Deuteronomy testifying to the futility of searching for the God-given commandments, Paul reads it as testifying to the God-raised Messiah.
Simply being human is not enough to claim membership in the family of God.